Spare Embryos
If they're going to die anyway, does that really entitle us to treat them as handy research material?
Gilbert Meilaender
August 26, 2002, Vol. 7, No. 47
IN OUR ONGOING NATIONAL DEBATE about the use of human embryonic stem cells for research, there is one compromise position that reappears with regularity and attracts relatively wide support. This position proscribes (at least for federal funding) any research on stem cells derived from embryos produced solely for research purposes, while permitting research on stem cells derived from embryos that were produced but are no longer needed for use in infertility treatments.
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